TraegerMethod Podcast

Jul 04 2024 95 ep. 81 mins 11

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West Coast America-centric punk / indie cultural history as told by the people who lived it with a dose of mindfulness and non-duality talk. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-traeger/support

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TM Pod Fourth of July Election Day Special

Jul 04 2024 31 mins

This very special emergency July Fourth Election Day Special is my attempt to make the case that Joe Biden must step aside and allow for an open Democratic convention. The arguments and dire predictions I share this episode are not meant to stir panic or fear, they are intended only to encourage action. I call this an 'Election Day Special' because I, perhaps naively, belie

Episode 92 Seth Lorinczi: Author of Death Trip: A Post-Holocaust Psychedelic Memoir, The Vile Cherubs, DC Punk

Jun 11 2024 95 mins

Episode 92 is finally here, featuring the return of musician, DC punk and now AUTHOR Seth Lorinczi. Last time we spoke back on Ep 62 we said we’d talk again when his book was released and I’m happy so say that day has come! Writing show notes is my absolute least favorite part of making this podcast so here’s my first show notes written in with ChatGPT: Episode Overview I

Episode 91: Rich Jacobs (Artist, Musician, Curator, Zine maker)

May 13 2024 107 mins

Episode 91 is a conversation with New York based artist, musician, curator, zine maker, scene maker Rich Jacobs. After having moved in often overlapping punk rock/DIY friend circles for the better parts of our lives, I’m happy to say Rich and I finally got to know one another in the early days of the pandemic talking over the phone, just like we're doing here. This episode co

Episode 90: Jessica Espeleta (Love As Laughter, Sam Jayne birthday celebration)

Apr 26 2024 101 mins

TraegerMethod podcast has finally made it to the 90’s! Appropriately Ep.90 is a conversation with a friend I met in the Olympia scene of the 1990’s; punk rock n’ roll multi-instrumentalist powerhouse Jessica Espeleta. She shares the story of how she arrived in Oly as a teenager when she was recruited to give the scene a try by the guys in Lync after a show they played at 924

Episode 89: Chris Squire (Part 2 with San Diego punk legend)

Mar 29 2024 103 mins

Episode 89 marks the return Chris Squire for part 2 of our series that tells a history of San Diego punk through the life and lens of one of the scene’s legends. Our conversation picks up where the last one left off in the latter part of 80’s toward the end of Squire’s high school career and the end of the old school SD punk scene. Part 2 moves into the acid drenched, post-h

Episode 88: Paul Schlesinger (Los Angeles Clowning/First TM Pod guest returns!)

Mar 16 2024 83 mins

Episode 88 marks the return of TM Pod’s VERY FIRST guest Los Angeles based creative / clown Paul Schlesinger. Paul is one of my best friends and favorite collaborators so it’s a special pleasure to catch up with him in the pod context. Our conversation focuses on his life today learning, producing and performing in the very happening LA ‘clown community’. He explains tha

Episode 87: The pod returns with Sean Kelly!

Mar 01 2024 125 mins

The podcast is back. We were gone for a spell. Now we’re back. Episode 87 finds us easing back into the podwaters with a low-key ‘comfort food’ conversation between myself and TMpod regular Sean Kelly (father, Tight Bros From Way Back When, SUBPOP, K Records, west coast punk rock real one) We share a warm hearted conversation that touches on the joy of vinyl records, old gui

Episode 86: Bobby Lane ( Early San Diego punk flyer artist, tattooer)

Oct 16 2023 102 mins

Hello and welcome! Our ‘Legends of San Diego Punk’ series continues on the pod… Episode 86 is a conversation with one of the great flyer artists of early 80’s ‘Slow Death’ scene, the very talented artist / tattooer Bobby Lane. Bobby paints a picture of his experiences going to his first shows as a teenager in 1980 just as the ‘hardcore’ era was adding a new even

Episode 85: Chris Squire (Part one with this San Diego punk legend)

Oct 02 2023 123 mins

Hello and Welcome, dear listener. Episode 86 is the beginning of a conversation with San Diego punk legend Chris Squire. Chris has done it all, he’s run a record label, booked bands, done sound production, and he’s either sung, played bass, guitar or drums in a ton of bands; PG13, The Tori Cobras, Belle Cora, Tit Wrench, Tiltwheel, Battalion of Saints, Russian Tremors, Kerose

Episode 84: Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrate the life of Rick Froberg

Sep 17 2023 94 mins

Episode 84 is a conversation between myself, Lia Friedman and Britt Neubacher celebrating the life of artist and musician Rick Froberg. Lia and Britt have been friends for decades and the two were close friends of Rick’s going back to the 80’s. Britt tells us how in recent years her relationship with Rick transformed into an intimate partnership that she felt was still only be